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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Hezbollah and the killing fields of Idlib |
| 2020-03-09 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In November 2016, Hezbollah celebrated its occupation of the Syrian city of al-Qusayr by throwing a military parade that showcased the Iranian militia’s hardware as well as its elite troops that have fought in Syria since the start of the revolution that set out to topple the Syrian regime and dictator Bashir al-Assad. Despite local and international outrage at the time, Hezbollah maintained that its involvement in the conflict on Assad’s side was a defensive tactic to protect the Shia religious sanctuaries in Syria and the Lebanese border towns from attacks of Sunni murderous Moslem groups, such as the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and later ISIS. Hezbollah’s recent involvement in the battle for northern Syria and its subsequent losses against |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 probably well over 2k Hezbollah deaths in total as that was the estimate 2 years ago interestingly Al Arabiya doesn't seem to acknowledge the 500k deaths of other people in this conflict |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-03-09 13:37 |